Sakana Hibachi Steak House and Sushi

I really enjoyed the sushi. The atmosphere was very nice and service was good. After moving to Harrisburg from Denver, I’ve not found any place to eat sushi. This was fresh and tasty. I’ll be back for sure.

Very, very good. Never had anything I did not like there. Love there food, it always makes me happy.

Travel all over the country for work and this is as good a Sushi stop as I have found. Fresh sushi. Good service. Love that it is BYOB… means bringing your favorite wine. Great for the family, date night, or with friends. We are there 2x a month-​never disappoints

I came to Sakana on a Saturday night and the first thing I notice was how packed and lively the place was. We were instantly greeted with a big smile and a welcome. First thoughts of our waitress was how friendly she was. She greeted us and introduced herself. They have great amounts of sushi selections! I decided on the Mt. Fugi, Blue Mountain and some basic rolls while my date ordered a shrimp and chicken hibachi meal. As we waited, I noticed just how lively the hibachi side was. I could hear the laughter and claps from the crowds as the hibachi chef did his show! The sushi was just simply delicious. Our hibachi meal was also great: nicely cooked and seasoned and the portion was huge. This has to be one of the best places to eat in Harrisburg. The service was great. Our waitress was very attentive and kept our drinks filled. The vibe in the restaurant was a warming one and the place itself was very clean. The food was a complete success! Simply delicious. We also learned they do deliveries and take out! We will be back for more sushi and to try the hibachi side. Will definitely be seeing more of us!

I spent 37 $ on an order and only half of it was delivered, When I called the restaurant they wanted to argue with me about it. The first person I spoke to told me he would keep it as a credit for me for when I ordered next. I told him I was not sure I was ever going to order from them again. I asked to speak to the manager. When she came on the phone she agreed to send out my salads. Then they had the nerve to call back and say they checked their cameras and they had proof my salads were in the bag they sent out. You’ve got to be kidding me. I’m asking them to send out to salads of iceberg lettuce and they have the nerve to fight with me like this. Like I would lie about two salads! I will never, ever order from them again

Today (⁷⁄₃₀) I dined with my wife at Sakana for the first time because we had a craving for some good sushi. We are pretty unfamiliar with sushi places in this area, so I reviewed Unilocal and narrowed it down to three places, M, Miso, and Sakana. I ended-​up choosing Sakana because they had an advertised lunch special where you order three (3) rolls, get a cup of soup, a side salad, and it costs $ 10.50-ish. My wife and I don’t eat a ton for lunch, so I figured that this would do the trick for the two of us, and it did!
Food: The three rolls we ordered were the Spicy Tuna Roll, Spicy Salmon Roll, and the Crab (Kami) Roll. The Kami roll had imitation crab in it, which I am not particularly fond of, but the flavor was still remarkably good for something I have a negative predisposition about (³⁄₅). The Spicy Tuna Roll was the best. It had some nice, little ‘crunchies’ in there which really added to the texture, and the fish tasted fresh. our favorite by far (⁴⁄₅). The Spicy Salmon Roll was also very good. Again, the fish tasted great, and the spicy sauce was really well balanced (⁴⁄₅).
I typically like to go to sushi places with several people, so we all can order a wide variety of specialty rolls and sample each of them. Usually though, i like to go to a place first and try their ‘basic’ rolls because if they can’t even do that right, then I do not want to come back and waste my money. I will definitely be back to Sakana because their rolls were good.
The Onion Soup was excellent. It was super-​well seasoned, and the flavor was subtle enough where it didn’t overwhelm my palette. I would order this soup again, even if it didn’t come with my meal. The salad was also nice. It was a ginger dressing which had nice flavor. The texture was a little lumpy, but I don’t think that is abnormal.
Food: ⁴⁄₅ (with the potential to be a 5 when I come back and try some specialty rolls)
Service: The service was really sweet. I don’t know if that is a qualifying rating for service, but I am using it. Our server was really polite, very efficient, and just very pleasant. She didn’t necessarily do anything above-​and-​beyond that ‘wowed me’, but this was definitely above-​average service just based on how nice, polite, and sweet she was. It goes to show you, that I am never looking for anything wildly over-​the-​top with my server. I just want to be served in a polite and respectful manner.
Service: ⁴⁄₅
Atmosphere: I really liked Sakana’s atmosphere. It was a little bit intimate/​romantic, and classy. This could easily be a great date for a nice night out with a significant other, or it could also be a place to go with a larger group of people and have some good times. The only thing that bothered me a bit, is there was a slight odor. I find this to be pretty consistent with places that decide to have carpeting instead of tile or laminate floors. I think carpeting in a restaurant is a little gross, and always smells. Spill something once on it, and you will never get the smell out. This was a bit of a bummer, but did not reflect the quality of the food in anyway — which was a relief
Atmosphere: ⁴⁄₅ (⁵⁄₅ — 1 for the smell)
Price: For $ 14, my wife and I ate good quality sushi, soup, and a salad. Not only that, but both of us were satisfied at the end. We had originally considered getting a dessert (either the ice cream tempura or the banana tempura), but found that we were perfectly satisfied with what we had already consumed. This price is the essentail equivalent of going and getting a couple of meals at McDonalds, but it tasted waaaaaay, waaaaaay better. Because of that, I feel like I got a great value, and will definitely return to try some specialty rolls.
Price: ⁴⁄₅
Final Thoughts: After researching the three major sushi places near where I work, I settled on Sakana, and I am glad that I did. I will likely never drive out here from Camp Hill, but I will definitely bring friends and family here, or even co-​workers if we want a special night out for some sushi because I know this place serves up quality. I would also like to note that the hibachi looked, and smelled AMAZING. I think that I will be stopping back for their 7.95−8.95 Hibachi Lunch special in the very near future.

Hibachi dinners are pretty good here. The majority of their «crab» sushi rolls use imitation crab (or crab stick)… which I’m not a fan of. When ordering take out, I usually add a good 15 or 20 minutes to the time that they claim it will be ready, because it usually takes at least 45 minutes for them to prepare 2 hibachi take out meals (at 4pm when there is only 1 table of people in the place). Overall the hibachi is good, but I wish they used actual crab meat in sushi rolls and I wish service wasn’t so slow.

We just moved here from Philadelphia last week, where food quality and taste is above the national average (undisputed). Good sushi is hard to come by. Excellent sushi is practically unheard of.
For the quality and amount of food that you receive, the prices were cheap, in my opinion. We’re used to paying so much more.
The owner and staff were pleasant, warm and very welcoming. Special requests on your favorites are welcomed.
When quality, fresh ingredients meet at the corner of cost effective, you’ll find me there!

We came up on a Saturday and had a party of 18 for my mothers birthday. We made reservations and they accommodated our party quite well even. We had hibachi and sushi. The lemongrass beef sticks were succulent. The onion soup and ginger dressing salad that accommodated our meals were refreshing. For sushi we had the Mt. Fuji as per recommendation from our waiter. It was very good and was topped with baked salmon, yummy! For hibachi I ordered the salmon and it was very good, very delicious. The chef was very entertaining and humorous. All in all it was a fun time celebrating with family. We will be back!

The hibachi show is good, the regular beef is pretty good (they also offer fillet mignon). The sushi was very good. The wait staff gets overwhelmed and makes errors and service is slow when the restaurant gets busy.

After working at an authentic Japanese restaurant while in college in Denver, I doubted the quality of any sushi/​Japanese place in HBG.
I was very impressed!
The cuts of fish are large and rice was appropriate size and not over flavored. The rolls are also impressive to say the least.
Hibachi was excellent and entertaining, but i missed the mustard sauce.
Staff was incredibly friendly and prompt as well.
Traditional Japanese food was excellent and they’ve added some Asian fusion dishes… lemongrass beef was served on a skewer and we couldn’t get enough!
This place changed owners recently and it seems to have evolved a bit.
…I ate WAY too much!!!

We greatly enjoyed our dinner at Sakana! The dishes were delicious, and the food was of great quality. You can tell that they really take care in the overall taste and customer satisfaction of the food, which is awesome! I would have to say that all of our dishes were tasty, and our favorites so far were the Lemongrass Beefsticks, Mt. Fuji Roll, and Special Seaweed Salad. So delectable! There are so many other dishes that we definitely want to try as well, and we are looking forward to visiting again soon!
I left Sakana feeling so stuffed, and as an added bonus, it is a BYOB!

One of the best sushi. You can tell the ingredients are fresh just by the taste of the seafood. Waiters wetter attentive, my water was filled up all the time.

Sakana recently changed hands and is under new management. The food quality remains quite good. They’ve rearranged the interior a bit, opening things up. There are even a couple of tables outside now.
From speaking with staff, I learned that the menu is going to receive an infusion of pan-​Pacific dishes. Jones Salpan, the new owner-​operator, reportedly has a wide repertoire, including Korean and Filipino cooking.
According to a recent Facebook post from Sakana, they will be offering complimentary appetizers with hibachi dinners, as well as «sushi tasting packages.» The latter has my interest piqued. I’m very interested to see how things progress.
Finally — almost forgot — Sakana is ramping up its promotional efforts, including with Clipper Magazine. As of this review, they have three coupons in the latest edition, including one for a $ 5 off a check of $ 30 or more.

Best sushi in the area. Not the best service but definitely worth going. I’m not a fan of the hibachi but my husband is. I go for the Rock n Roll — eel, shrimp tempura, and cream cheese are the highlights. Smoked salmon sashimi is very good.

Pretty good sushi here. We ordered the 5pc sushi appetizer, ESPN roll and a Mt Fuji roll as well as a hibachi dinner. The sushi had generous slices of fish, which tasted fresh. The soup wasn’t a miso soup but an onion/​mushroom type broth. The salad dressing was nice and refreshing, typical of sushi restaurants, but the salad itself was a bit lacking, simple ripped up iceberg lettuce. Strange fishy odor was coming from the kitchen…
The rolls were made nicely. Tight and didn’t fall a part when bitten into. Good flavor as well.
The hibachi chicken was a bit dry and the fried rice had way too much garlic.
I’d definitely come back for the sushi.

Best sushi in Harrisburg hands down. Have tried all the other sushi places and nothing compares. Plus it is BYOB so how could you go wrong.

I have been to Sakana several times and have received consistently excellent food and service. Unlike some sushi places, the menu here has multiple pages of sushi rolls to choose from. I usually go for rolls that are cooked and they have a great selection. On top of the fabulous and flavorful sushi, the hibachi is also top-​rate. The proverbial icing on the cake is the fact that Sakana is byob. Nothing better than a white wine paired with sushi or sashimi. Happy eating!

This isn’t the worst place ever. But I’m not coming back, for sure.
We tried hibachi dinner here. First, it is BYOB, so that’s worth mentioning. No problem with that — I just didn’t get it from the web for some reason.
Next, an employee or manager or someone kept eerily staring at the window at people. Or at the people in the restaurant. That was… strange to say the least.
Food wise, it’s nothing to come back for. The onion soup was decent, but I’ve had so much better. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t good. The salad lettuce was fresh, but again, nothing special in terms of hibachi salads. The hibachi cooking part was the real problem for me. The shrimp were vastly overcooked — I’ve been to so many hibachi places I know the order things should be cooked by heart. Shrimp shouldn’t be left on for the whole entire time. They had a hard crust on the edge. Ugh. Steaks were fine — not the worst quality meat, but fairly fatty and both the normal steak and filet seasoned with an exorbitant amount of soy sauce /​teriyaki. The rice was actually frozen rice — we could still see the ice chunks when it was thrown on the grill. Having fresh rice is really important to fried rice, so that was dissappointing. To follow it, again, it was doused in soy sauce. The veggies were the worst though — normally one of my favorite parts, I couldn’t even eat them. It was like drinking a shot of soy sauce and chasing it with undercooked broccoli.
To end it all, it was fairly expensive in terms of hibachi. I am comparing of course to prices out of town, but also in cities nearly 5 – 6 times the size of Harrisburg (both in Cincinnati and Orlando I can get hibachi meals like this for ²⁄₃^rd the price). So that was disappointing.
Nothing to come back to. Maybe their sushi is better?

Very nice and big restaurant inside. The environment are good. Big parking lot.
They have sushi bar and lots of hibachi table. The hibachi chef were good entertaining the guest at the hibachi table. And the food were good. The sushi also good. And also BYOB. Definitely good place to eat. Will come back for more for sure.